THE PUNISHER

Pencil on Standard Stock
Original Creation Date: May 20, 2014

The Punisher, in all his vigilante glory.

TRUE STORY: Those are actually Charlie Manson's eyes. And why shouldn't they be? Somewhere in the 90's Frank became some sort of blue collar good-guy hero, but lest we forget the lessons taught us by Amazing Spider-Man #129... The Punisher is a villain, and probably a deranged one at that.

Dude is nuts, and should be. Look for this to get inked at some point as well.

HARKILON HELL

Pen & Ink on 11x15 Warm Press
Original Creation Date: May 20, 2014

I treated this piece as if it were a full blown cover commission, done on 11x15 warm press and conceived, penciled, and inked over the course of about 48 hours. I purposely wanted the entire scene to be overwhelmingly filled with the alien attackers, but tried to use tangential eye lines and other compositional elements to push the focal point continuously back to our beleaguered hero.

The hero, of course, is the amazing Jugger Grimrod.

For those not readily familiar with him, Jugger was the sociopathic anti-hero of ALIEN LEGION, Carl Potts's epic space serial comic, originally released under Marvel's Epic Comics creator-owned line.

(Original Pencils)

I LOVED Alien Legion, and still keep the completed run of both series in a relatively accessible location. And yet I haven't read a page for a good ten years. Hmmm... I think I'm gonna go do something about that right now!

ATTUMA!

Pen & Ink on Standard Stock
Original Creation Date: May 17, 2014

Don't know why, but I've really had a desire to draw Namor's brutal brother-- I'm smack dab in the middle of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," so perhaps that's why.It's almost shocking that I haven't colored this-- my favorite thing about Attuma is his color scheme.

I thought the lower camera angle worked out pretty well here-- and who doesn't love drawing evil octopii?

BEACH CLOSED BY ORDER AMITY P.D.

Pencil on Standard Stock
Creation Date: May 12, 2014

I once was in a band named Chief Brody. So whatever expression of reverence for the character and performance I can possibly muster here will obviously fall short of that.

This will go in the "work up to a higher level of pencil and/or ink" pile.

UNCANNY

Pen & Ink on Standard Stock

Inked on Date: May 15, 2014

The Uncanny X-Men, say, circa 1983.

Aka my childhood. I knew these characters better than most friends and family growing up, and sitting down to draw them was certainly a great trip down memory lane.  The X-Men franchise today is an empire, an army of mutants and students and villains and villains that become headmasters and such.

But back then, they were just... family.